Common way to allow Auth access to all actions in a controller is to do something like this:
//In some controller
public function beforeFilter() {
$this->Auth->allow('*');
parent::beforeFilter();
}
public function beforeFilter() {
$this->Auth->allow('*');
parent::beforeFilter();
}
However it can get pretty tedious if you’ve got lots of controllers and have to go through a bunch of them to enable (or disable) access.
Instead, try something like this in your AppController:
public function beforeFilter() {
$this->Auth->loginAction = array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'login');
$this->Auth->loginRedirect = array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'index');
$this->allowAccess();
}
private function allowAccess() {
if(in_array($this->name, array('Pages'))) {
$this->Auth->allow('*');
}
}
$this->Auth->loginAction = array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'login');
$this->Auth->loginRedirect = array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'index');
$this->allowAccess();
}
private function allowAccess() {
if(in_array($this->name, array('Pages'))) {
$this->Auth->allow('*');
}
}
The above will let Auth to access everything in the PagesController.
If you need to grant access to additional controllers simply add them to the array of names:
array(‘Pages’, ‘Books’, ‘Customers’, ‘Etc’)
Having to deal with a single file to grant/deny access just makes things easier…
You could even make that “grantable” array a property of the AppController.
